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Unlike satellite TV systems, which use much smaller dishes and therefore suffer more weather-related outages, it takes a pretty heavy (and pretty precisely situated) storm to interfere with or block transmissions for Internet satellite systems.

The technical term for this phenomena is rain fade. During certain times of the year, energy from the sun can overpower the signal coming from satellite. This is called a sun fade, sun transit or sun outage. These outages occur during the spring and fall, and only last for a few minutes. These times can be predicted, as they occur on a regular schedule, and many Internet via satellite companies post outage calculators on their Web sites.


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